Football betting preview: Hibernian with moderate expectations before welcoming Rangers

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Date: Fri 20.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Easter Road (20421 seats)

This could be an interesting match as Hibernian have their presumed home advantage while Rangers are ahead 19 points in the Premiership table.

Hibernian and Rangers should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Hibernian form and stats

When playing at home in the Premiership, Hibernian have managed 3 wins, 5 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 9 games.

In their previous game, the manager J. Ross led his Hibernian to a defeat in the Premiership match away at Celtic. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Easter Road. Before that game, the 3-0 home victory against Aberdeen.

A decent goal production from Hibernian in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 9 league matches. Hibernian's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 12 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Rangers form and stats

Rangers, who have the most points (23) away in Premiership, have been very strong on the road so far with a massive 23 points collected from 9 Premiership games. 7 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats is the record so far. Things are running smoothly for Rangers who hasn't tasted defeat in their last twelve matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Celtic.

Two travels in a row for Rangers, whose manager S. Gerrard could celebrate last time after the Premiership win against Motherwell. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Young Boys in the Europa League.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Rangers are regular goalscorers on their travels. Rangers are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 5 times in 9 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Rangers - Hibernian 6-1. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: 3 wins for Hibernian, 4 draws and 3 wins for Rangers. Over 2,5 goals: 6 times; under 2,5 goals: 4 games.

Top Goalscorers

RangersA. Morelos
A. Morelos
11 goals
RangersJ. Defoe
J. Defoe
10 goals
HibernianC. Doidge
C. Doidge
7 goals

Hibernian missing players

Rangers missing players

Hibernian Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 9 3 Played P 3 9 16
5 3 2 Won W 3 7 13
7 5 1 Drew D 0 2 2
6 1 0 Lost L 0 0 1
27 17 7 Scored S 8 21 47
31 12 2 Conceded C 1 5 10
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
94% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 94%
67% 78% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 56% 69%
39% 56% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 44% 56%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 25%
72% 78% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 44% 44%
11% 22% 33% Clean Sheets C S 67% 56% 50%
17% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 6%
 
4.4 5 2.3 Corners For (avg) C F 2.3 5.2 6.4
5.7 5.1 5.7 Corners Against (avg) C A 0.7 1.7 1.8
1.6 1.3 2 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 0.7 1.4 1.1
1 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 1 2
 
188 115 26 Total Shots T S 55 149 297
82 52 14 Shots on Target S O 20 60 126
33% 33% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 35% 37%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hibernian has the fewest clean sheets (2)
  • Hibernian has the most conceded goals in the second half (23)
  • Hibernian has the most dropped points from leading position (18)
  • Hibernian have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hibernian have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Hibernian haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (5) away
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4)
  • Rangers has the most clean sheets (5) away
  • Rangers has the most points (23) away
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (21) away
  • Rangers has the the best goal difference (+16) away
  • Rangers have not yet lost a game away.
  • Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Rangers have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Rangers have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Celtic 17 15 1 1 50 9 9 9 0 0 31 3 8 6 1 1 19 6 41 46
2 Rangers 16 13 2 1 47 10 7 6 0 1 26 5 9 7 2 0 21 5 37 41
3 Aberdeen 18 9 5 4 26 22 9 5 3 1 16 11 9 4 2 3 10 11 4 32
4 Motherwell 18 10 1 7 29 24 10 6 0 4 17 14 8 4 1 3 12 10 5 31
5 Kilmarnock 18 6 5 7 17 21 9 4 4 1 11 5 9 2 1 6 6 16 -4 23
6 Hibernian 18 5 7 6 27 31 9 3 5 1 17 12 9 2 2 5 10 19 -4 22
7 Ross County 17 5 5 7 20 35 9 4 1 4 13 19 8 1 4 3 7 16 -15 20
8 Livingston 18 4 7 7 23 27 8 3 3 2 7 5 10 1 4 5 16 22 -4 19
9 St. Mirren 18 4 3 11 15 27 9 3 3 3 9 10 9 1 0 8 6 17 -12 15
10 St. Johnstone 16 3 6 7 14 33 8 2 2 4 8 15 8 1 4 3 6 18 -19 15
11 Hearts 18 2 6 10 16 30 9 1 4 4 11 13 9 1 2 6 5 17 -14 12
12 Hamilton Academical 18 2 6 10 16 31 9 2 2 5 9 13 9 0 4 5 7 18 -15 12

Read more about Premiership

The Scottish Premiership is the top division of football in Scotland, the Scottish Professional Football League. Twelve teams play 38 fixtures to top the league table in a season running from August to May. The teams first meet each other three times. Then the league splits in two for five more games.